Labels: Adalah, BDS, New Israel Fund, New York City, SodaStream
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:16 PM
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The journalist, Majd Kayyal, the editor of the website for Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, is suspected of traveling to Lebanon for a conference commemorating 40-years of the Lebanese newspaper As-Saphir, where he came in contact with Hezbollah agents.
Adalah lawyers met yesterday with Kayyal in the Shin Bet Prison in Kishon, for the first time since his arrest.
Kayyal told his lawyers that the investigation is focusing on his visit to Lebanon and explained that his visit was part of his job as a journalist.Adalah receives major funding from the New Israel Fund.
Kayyal claims he was being held in a cell 24 hours a day, without any daylight, a bed or a lamp, and that he had lost his sense of time. He claims he was intensively interrogated and questioned about his private life.Boo. Hoo.
The Haifa Magistrate's Court released Kayyal to house arrest on Thursday until the next hearing on his case which is April 22.Maybe he can join Azmi Bishara in Qatar.
Labels: Adalah, Hezbullah, Israeli Arab, Israeli Arabs are a fifth column, Lebanon, New Israel Fund
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:24 PM
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AVRAHAM’S RESEARCH demonstrates that Hoffman and Kallus are political animals, not just spiritual seekers motivated by their intense attachment to the Western Wall. And it strongly suggests that the prime motivation of the leaders of WoW is to advance an agenda consistent with their other political work.Read the whole thing.
The power of the Western Wall derives, in large part, from its role as a symbol of Jewish continuity, from the time of the First and Second Temples until today. Those who identify with organizations like Ir Amim and Emek Shaveh, which oppose Israeli archeological work in the Old City, as part of a sinister “Judaization of Jerusalem,” and who are allied with groups calling for the return of east Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount and Western Wall, to Palestinian control, are apparently not terribly moved by Jewish continuity and its symbols.
In truth, Hoffman has always been rather forthright that the Western Wall Plaza had value in her eyes primarily as a place to make political statements – “to be seen,” in her words – and provoke confrontation. Hoffman admits she feels no particular attachment to places, the Western Wall included. And her Reform Movement long ago declared, “One should not consider the Western Wall as possessing any sanctity.”
She has no answer for the question posed long ago by Hillel Halkin, “Are there no other places in Jerusalem to practice Jewish feminism, that they must do it at the one site where it is sure to infuriate large numbers of Orthodox Jews?” – a question that takes on special gravity given Hoffman’s admission that the Western Wall has no real sanctity in her eyes.
Offending others is not an unfortunate byproduct, but the very purpose of WoW. Again, Hoffman admitted as much recently in explaining her theoretical acceptance of Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky’s proposal for WoW to move their prayer rites from the current Western Wall Plaza to a fully refurbished area further south on the Western Wall (albeit while conditioning that acceptance on 16 untenable conditions). “WoW,” she conceded, in explanation of the new approach, “is not the right group for bringing about change in the Orthodox world.”
In other words, the 25 years of confrontation were not, at least for Hoffman, about the yearning for proximity to the Western Wall, but to “model” new and better modes of prayer for her benighted Orthodox sisters.
IT IS IMPORTANT to understand the ways in which WoW’s activities serve the radical agenda of Hoffman, Kallus and Sachs. WoW serves to “kasher” many of the organizations with which it is associated, in particular the NIF, which serves as both a funder of WoW and a conduit for its tax-deductible contributions.
WoW wraps itself in the cloak of religious pluralism.
For most American Jews, the belief that “there is no right way to be a Jew” is both the first and last of their theological principles. Accordingly, religious pluralism is as “American Jewish” as apple pie and motherhood – sadly, a good deal more so than the latter.
By selling itself as an organization committed to the benign cause – at least in the eyes of non-Orthodox American Jews – of religious pluralism, the NIF is able to obscure other parts of its agenda that might find less favor with many of its contributors.
But there is another more insidious way in which WoW helps to advance the radical Left agenda in Israel.
Groups like B’Tselem and Breaking the Silence, which uses former IDF soldiers to advance a narrative of widespread Israeli war crimes, seek to alienate American Jews from their identification with Israel. By doing so, they hope to increase Israeli Jews’ sense of isolation and lack of international support, and to thereby convince them that the only way out is to conclude a “peace” with the Palestinians on almost any terms.
Labels: Adalah, archaeology, Israel's suicidal Left, Jerusalem, New Israel Fund, Women of the Wall
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:39 PM
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Labels: Adalah, blogosphere, Google, libel and slander, New Israel Fund, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, Women of the Wall
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:34 PM
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Labels: Adalah, New Israel Fund, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, Women of the Wall
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:19 AM
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Adalah, an 'Israeli Arab' organization that received more than $475,000 from the Jewish-funded New Israel Fund in 2010, is making a presentation to a BDS (Boycott Divest Sanction) conference in Geneva next Tuesday on 'Israeli apartheid.' Suhad Bishara, Director of Adalah's Land and Planning Rights Unit, is scheduled to speak on Tuesday, February 14 at event organized by a Swiss group named "BDS Geneva."And the money that Adalah gets from the New Israel Fund is coming straight from your do-gooding Jewish neighbors who think that they're promoting 'civil rights' in Israel. The rest of Adalah's money comes from the anti-Semitic Europeans who are looking for the Arab Muslims to finish the job that the Europeans couldn't finish 70 years ago.
"The use of the false 'apartheid' analogy and misleading 'racism' terminology is totally unacceptable and is the antithesis of human rights," said Prof. Gerald Steinberg, president of NGO Monitor. "Adalah's funders, including the EU, European governments, and foundations, should repudiate Adalah's use of immoral and inflammatory rhetoric."
In a letter to New Israel Fund (NIF) CEO Daniel Sokatch, NGO Monitor alerted NIF, one of Adalah's major funders ($475,950 authorized in 2010), to the event.
NGO Monitor notes that Adalah's submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which is meeting in Geneva next week to discuss Israel, demonizes Israel for laws and policies that allegedly "permit and even actively promote racial discrimination."
Labels: Adalah, New Israel Fund, NGO Monitor
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:23 PM
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I am an Orthodox Jew - some would even call me 'ultra-Orthodox.' Born in Boston, I was a corporate and securities attorney in New York City for seven years before making aliya to Israel in 1991 (I don't look it but I really am that old :-). I have been happily married to the same woman for thirty-five years, and we have eight children (bli ayin hara) ranging in age from 13 to 33 years and nine grandchildren. Four of our children are married! Before I started blogging I was a heavy contributor on a number of email lists and ran an email list called the Matzav from 2000-2004. You can contact me at: IsraelMatzav at gmail dot com
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